Job issues - library culture
Librarians don’t complain enough. Even after we cut services back, surveys continue to say we are wonderful. We must manage expectations in order to make them realistic. Unfortunately people expect that librarians will be nice to them!
Problem : we need to pay librarians enough for their skills to retain them BUT many of us get part of our reward by working for the common good - pay is not everything
Libraries are shedding some IT roles, e.g. community information databases